Continuity in diversity.
Ancient and post-modern. Beauty to admire
with our eyes and modernity to grasp in our
mind. Figurative, the
form of an item in itself and its conceptual
references in our mind
and unconscious. A
sort of loop dialogue
passing from the item,
to the eyes to the mind.
Various layers of meaning on top of each other, where each item gives us specific
sensations and we seem to expect it
to ask us what we want from it and
what we are. No separation between
us and the item but the vicinity of different languages. Classic production
with its complete forms strikes the eye
and post-modearn design production
strikes the mind and they both strike
the soul. What would happen if we put
vision and mind together? Classic mixing with modern? It is no longer just a
simple production of things but it is
art. “We need chaos inside us to give
birth to a dancing star”. (F. Nietzsche).
Chaos like life, like a volcano that explodes with a myriad of lights. Volcano, the god of fire who created divine
forms from nothing, and who could
be the bride of someone who created
beauty from nothing if not Venus,
the most beautiful goddess on Mount
Olympus? Creativity, chaos, continuity, past-present-future, ancient,
modern, post-modern. They seem to
be in conflict but they are not. It is All
that finds its Unity, co-existence, living
together, classic and modern. This is
the real synthesis that is outside the
norms and mental pigeonholes classifying everything in strict categories
that others have decided for us.
Crystals with their play of light, sparkle like life itself that is brilliance and
light. Which evoke past and future atmospheres with their different styles.
Venetian, with a silence that is only
broken by the waves breaking on
the shore where time seems to stand
still, futurist with their modern lines
marked by rhythm, speed and change.
Like the painting by René Magritte (La
Condiciòn humana) where he painted
a window overlooking the courtyard,
from the glass palazzo we overlook
the ancient Venetian canals. No long
beautiful but sublime.

It is not easy to look to
the future, but somehow the Masiero line is
in the vanguard of new
designs that are rooted
in the past but look
ahead. It is a research
into new lines that interweave, overlap and
exceed the most classic
of styles without ever
denying continuity and
their roots. Minimalist
lamps, with everything
the term has meant since the beginning of the 60s. Minimalist means sober forms which in their simplicity
show all of themselves, but minimalist
is also everything that the item communicates and everything we want to
see in it. Minimalist seems the negation
of art and it seems that all of us, with
a bit of imagination, can equal it if it
were not for the fact that the minimalist “codes” are extremely complex and
peculiar – with respect to the purely
figurative language for example – that
only hours of tears and blood can create. The “codes” are not grasped at a
simple glance but through mental intuition and conceptual codes: “things
that you humans could never imagine”. Things that whoever has penetrated the secrets of the future cannot
communicate to us, because the future
does not belong to us. But the Masiero
line gets the message over because it
ties and welds the future to the past
and the past is inside us. Laser lamps
in Dr. Freud’s brown bath in Vienna at
the beginning of the 20th century. It
is everything. Past, future and digging
into the mind to bring to light whatever
is inside us but which we have never
seen before.